Albert Bloch Explained

Albert Bloch
Birth Date:August 2, 1882 August 2, 1882
Birth Place:Saint Louis, Missouri, US
Death Date: March 23, 1961
Death Place:Lawrence, Kansas, US
Education:Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, St. Louis School of Fine Arts
Field:Painter

Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists.[1]

Biography

Bloch was born on August 2, 1882, in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.[2] In 1901–03 he produced comic strips and cartoons for the St. Louis Star newspaper.[3] Between 1905 and 1908 he worked as a caricaturist and illustrator for William Marion Reedy's literary and political weekly The Mirror.

From 1909 to 1921, Bloch lived and worked mainly in Germany, where he was associated with Der Blaue Reiter.[4] After the end of World War I, Bloch returned to the United States, teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a year, and then accepting a Departmental Head position at the University of Kansas until his retirement in 1947.[5]

Albert Bloch died March 23, 1961, in Lawrence, Kansas.[2]

Albert Bloch had two sons, Bernard and Walter, with his first wife, Hortense. Bernard Bloch, was a distinguished American linguist.[6]

His work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago,[7] The Jewish Museum,[8] the Museum of Modern Art,[9] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[10] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Albert Bloch papers · SOVA. sova.si.edu. en-US. 2018-06-22.
  2. Web site: Albert Bloch . Missouri Remembers . 24 September 2022 . en.
  3. Web site: Stripper's Guide Obscurity of the Day: Professor Wayupski . May 19, 2011 .
  4. Web site: Spencer Museum of Art. Spencer Museum of Art. 25 January 2014 . en. 2018-06-22.
  5. Web site: Albert Bloch and the Blue Rider: the Munich Years. Baron. Frank. 2014. Kansas University.
  6. Web site: Bernard Bloch. lingo.stanford.edu. 2018-06-22.
  7. Web site: Albert Bloch . The Art Institute of Chicago . 1882 . 24 September 2022 . en.
  8. Web site: March of the Clowns . The Jewish Museum . 24 September 2022.
  9. Web site: Albert Bloch . The Museum of Modern Art . 24 September 2022 . en.
  10. Web site: Albert Bloch . Smithsonian American Art Museum . 24 September 2022.
  11. Web site: Albert Bloch . Whitney Museum of American Art . 24 September 2022 . en.

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